Nyx: The Protectors

A corporate hierarch is en route to Adenne, and Nyx has been ordered to protect him from environmental demonstrators. A top-ranked assassin is also on Adenne, contracted to kill both Nyx and the hierarch. With the local police and the protesters pitted against her, Nyx's only ally might be the assassin who would kill her. More

NAME: NyxTARGET #3: The ProtectorsBRIEFING: A corporate hierarch is en route to Adenne, the world where Nyx is spending her furlough. Because the corporation plans to exploit certain ore deposits, environmentalists from the radical group Ecotect are planning protests and violence, and Nyx is ordered to protect the hierarch from them. Also on Adenne is a top-ranking mortifice named Silver LeMay whose contract seems to include killing both Nyx and the hierarch, and who is aligned with Ecotect. Nyx has just two days to prepare for the hierarch's arrival. With the local constabulary and the enviromentalists pitted against her, Nyx's only ally might be the one person on Adenne who has specifically been assigned to kill her.

Tyree Campbell writes primarily science fiction, plus some fantasy and some horror. He is the author of four novels [including the Nyx series], some 130 short stories, and three dozen poems. He has won SpecFicWorld's Speculative Fiction Contest, Crux Magazine's SF Writing Contest, a third-place Rhysling for poetry, and has been nominated for the James Tiptree Award, a Spectrum Award, and a Lambda Award. Currently he is working on three other novels, including the third Nyx novel [The Protectors], plus assorted short stories. In his spare time he is also the managing editor of Sam's Dot Publishing.